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More on subsidiarity

February 6, 2014 by James Kalb

I have an additional piece on the topic up at Catholic World Report. The basic point is extra ecclesiam nulla subsidiaritas. You’re not going to get subsidiarity apart from an understanding of the world that doesn’t seem to exist in secular public thought today.

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What is normal?

January 15, 2014 by James Kalb

That’s the issue considered in my latest column at Catholic World Report. The big question today is whether the expression means much of anything.

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Will the Church return to type?

January 9, 2014 by James Kalb

That’s the original title of my latest piece at Crisis Magazine. It says that the dispute between progressive and traditionalist Catholics is a dispute over whether the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church has an essential nature.

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Inclusiveness and Crisis, part II

December 12, 2013 by James Kalb

Crisis has published the second part of my two-part piece on inclusiveness.

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Subsidiarity

December 10, 2013 by James Kalb

That’s the topic of my latest column at Catholic World Report.

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Inclusiveness and Crisis, part I

December 5, 2013 by James Kalb

Crisis Magazine has published the first part of a two-part piece on inclusiveness that gives a thumbnail sketch of the argument of my recent book on the topic.

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The inclusion obsession

September 20, 2024December 3, 2013 by James Kalb

I gave this lecture at the 2013 meeting of the H. L. Mencken Club.

The “Inclusion” Obsession

by James Kalb

We hear a lot about inclusiveness, and it’s apparently very important, but the topic is never discussed analytically. The idea seems to be that it’s warm and fuzzy and just obviously a good thing. The … More ...

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The end of generic conservatism

November 7, 2013 by James Kalb

That’s the subject of my most recent piece at Crisis Magazine.

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The Return of Christendom

November 4, 2013 by James Kalb

That’s the title of my latest column at Catholic World Report. It tells us that Christendom is always with us.

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De mulieribus Americanis

October 27, 2013 by James Kalb

A common claim among dissatisfied men is that American women are the worst. European women, it is said, are are more feminine, less self-centered, and less concerned with their careers than their American counterparts.

American women do seem to be somewhat different. Even the northern and Germanic countries, which seem so single-mindedly egalitarian, have … More ...

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